twood be cool if it was online and people had access to an editor to design the behaviour and wav / squad dynamimcs within a set of well-defined rules / classes / behaviours etc.

Once they felt ready, the user would press "battle" and their creation would be queued for an automated online battle with other users own created squads. And all other users could watch battles online in real-time.

hmmm yes very cool indeed

there could be various skill levels upgrades but no pay to win please.

You are the man for it Newt,

my patreon money is ready…

these guys seem to have achieved the worms thing pretty convincingly. dont ask me how though.

Im pretty sure they are still using Construct 2 or 3 but I cant see any updates on this forum from them.

reven

youtube.com/watch

about half way through the vid you will see the terrain destruction.

Very cool sir,

I was thinking to try the same in ma game some time ago.... but I did not have de kahonas....

Actually I would like to upgrade my comment to

"Holy s**t....!"

How the f........

I just only now realised that you are the dude who made C2 Galaga. And that it was playing your Galaga that inspred me to start my own adventures in Construct...

so it is all your fault...!

Excellent man, I played last night for far too long. Even the wife came in as well, lured by the music, and played and appeared to enjoy which is depressing as she is never interested in my game :(

anyway man you have pro skilz.

Do you have all your projects collected somewhere on line?

(edit) yea I know I can click your name as see what you have uploaded to arcade but Im thinking of like a dedeicated website for your games.

Nabu

Hey man thanks for you comments!

Technically it is an old house that needs a lot of work and I am thinking that I may have taken on more than I can handle. It has pretty much stopped me from working on the game but I am still doing bits here and there. And my kids well they are always saying they are going to do graphics for the game but nothing ever materializes so, yea looks like I am on my own on that front.

I have just started to properly looking at graphics to try to find a cohesive theme but to my surprise I have learnt that I have no idea about art and design so there is a lot of trial and error. Part of my learning is trying to seriously understand how to make additive / screening effects look like really glowing across varying backgrounds.

As part of my research I went to a big open air drum and bass rave and spent the whole night studying the lights and lasers to see what makes them actually look glowy. It was very enjoyable research! I think I will be having d&b soundtrack in the game also.

anyway so yea hope to show some of the results of this research in the next video in a week or two

cheers

Man I shouldn't have started this should I.

OK my last non game related post ever on this forum.

Maybe I am not being clear. Im not talking about the forum. That is a small thing as you say. And Im not debating free speech. Interpretation of incitement to violence is itself debatable but yea sure things like death threats or violence threats sure ban all that. Ive been trying to avoid examples and choosing my words carefully so as to not turn this political totally defeating the point of the original post. But I specifically said say banning on on the basis of "ideological differences" or "socio-political" differences is wrong, ANd this is what large tech has been doing recently. and again , IM not talking about banning from the forum. Im talking about banning from the Construct platform.

You may not see it like this but you, Ashley, Scirra, are now the private owners of an online public content creation platform. Just like YouTube in a round about way. You may not host all the products created but you have complete control on who can and cannot access the platform used to create those products. And if you ever do get political as a company, (as for example google has), then there is nothing stopping you banning access to the tool or restricting services available, for those that dont align with your political views (as for example google is doing)

and even if you dont get political,,,, when, in a few years, Construct is the number 1 go to platform for the creation of interactive 2d content on the web used by hundreds of thousands of people around the world, and then governments start to see this and they will come knocking and say, hey Ashley we need you to ban access to the Construct tool for all these people because we dont like their political / social / religious views and if you dont then we are going to have to ask you to start policing all the content created using your tools and if you dont do that well then Im afraid you will have to close the Construct website.

I just see these very alarming things happening in tech, media and games companies recently, especially regarding online. In the last year my own company has started bombarding employees with a very hard left social political agenda, that as far as I can see can only be a directive from government, to the point where it has become uncomfortable and people are literally afraid to talk publicly about it for fear of losing their jobs.

anyway I know you guys are lovely and Ill shut up now.

WackyToaster Wow very interesting, thanks for the link, that is exactly the sort of thing that I am talking about. Sounds like the very fabric of the internet could be at risk there……!

Elliott Yes of course Scirra have the right to deny / remove access to their platforms but this is a huge power that was never present with standalone apps. As a company grows to have enough influence this sort of power can be used to subvert, silence, and control the user base if Scirra so desire or if gov so desire of Scirra. ISIS is an extreme case and an easy target but if you are true advocate of free speech then there can be no compromise. Scirra must not be banning on the basis of ideological differences no matter how despicable those opposing ideals are. Isis must have as much right to spout their ideology as I must have to criticise it. This is what free speech is about. You can start with banning Isis but where does it end and how to you police it.

Ashley think I had little too much coffee today morning have been running aorund all day like 1000mph at work but also has made me a bit para' thus the post, thanks for your response, that is reassuring. Im still grinding my teeth.... man I need to quit coffee......